Dives (river)
The River at Chambois
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The Dives is a river in France, which runs in the Basse -Normandie. It rises in the municipality of Courménil, drained generally north, through the countryside of the Pays d'Auge, this borders on the plain of Caen and ends after 105 kilometers between Cabourg and Houlgate in an estuary in the English Channel. The last kilometer of Dives is a long meander through an artificial harbor and the tourist area of Port Guillaume. The river is separated from the English Channel in the Channel through which a kilometer long sand dune Le Cap Cabourg in front of his mouth. Along the way, Dives crosses the departments of Orne and Calvados.
Shipping
The Dives is officially navigable up to the bridge Putot -en-Auge, although some height restrictions must be observed. Yachts and fishing boats go to the bridge Pont de la Dives, which connects the community Dives- sur- Mer, Cabourg.
Places on the river
- Courménil
- Chambois
- Trun
- Morteaux - Colibœf
- Mézidon- Canon
- Méry- Corbon
- Troarn
- Dives- sur -Mer
- Cabourg
- Houlgate
History
On the day of the Normandy landing ( D-Day: June 6, 1944 ) there was a large Airborne Company:
The 6th British Airborne Division landed ("Operation Tonga " ) with gliders or gliders on the bridges over the Orne and the Caen Canal at Bénouville. The 6th Airborne Division was to land the job, with paratroopers and glider troops into three landing zones (K, V, and N) to take the Orne Caen Canal Bridge and keep to destroy bridges over the Dives, off the coast battery Merville and to keep the space between the Orne and Dives and thus to protect the left flank of the Allied landings. The paratroopers quickly succeeded to take the landing zones and prepare for the landing of reinforcements. The blasting of the bridges over the Dives in Troarn, Bures, Robehomme and Varaville reach. By the evening of June 6, the Division reached all the goals.